Global Patent Index - EP 0970466 A2

EP 0970466 A2 20000112 - VOICE CONVERSION

Title (en)

VOICE CONVERSION

Title (de)

STIMMUMWANDLUNG

Title (fr)

CONVERSION DE VOIX

Publication

EP 0970466 A2 20000112 (EN)

Application

EP 98903756 A 19980127

Priority

  • US 9801538 W 19980127
  • US 3622797 P 19970127

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9835340A2] A voice conversion system and methodology employ a codebook mapping approach to transforming a source voice to sound like a target voice. Each speech frame is represented by a weighted average of codebook entries. The weights represent a perceptual distance of the speech frame and may be refined by a gradient descent analysis. The vocal tract characteristics, represented by a line spectral frequency vector, the excitation characteristics, represented by a linear predictive coding residual, the duration, and the amplitude of the speech frame are transformed in the same weighted-average framework.

IPC 1-7

G10L 21/00

IPC 8 full level

G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G10L 25/24 (2013.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G10L 13/033 (2013.01 - EP US); G10L 21/00 (2013.01 - EP US); G10L 25/24 (2013.01 - EP US); G10L 2019/0001 (2013.01 - EP); G10L 2019/0007 (2013.01 - EP); G10L 2021/0135 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9835340 A2 19980813; WO 9835340 A3 19981119; AT E277405 T1 20041015; AU 6044298 A 19980826; DE 69826446 D1 20041028; DE 69826446 T2 20050120; EP 0970466 A2 20000112; EP 0970466 A4 20000531; EP 0970466 B1 20040922; US 6615174 B1 20030902

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 9801538 W 19980127; AT 98903756 T 19980127; AU 6044298 A 19980127; DE 69826446 T 19980127; EP 98903756 A 19980127; US 35526700 A 20000222